* Ricardo Neri <[email protected]> wrote:
> The instructions STR and SLDT are not emulated in any case. Thus, it made
> sense to not implement functionality to identify them. However, a
> subsequent commit will introduce functionality to warn about the use of
> all the instructions that UMIP protect, not only those that are emulated.
> A first step for that is the ability to identify them.
>
> Plus, now that STR and SLDT are identified, we need to explicitly avoid
> their emulation (i.e., not rely on unsuccessful identification). Group
> togehter all the cases that we do not want to emulate: STR, SLDT and user
> long mode processes.
>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
> Cc: Ravi V. Shankar <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <[email protected]>
Sigh, the _title_ still refers to 'str'...
I'll fix it up, no need to resend, but this lack of attention to details is
seriously sad.
Thanks,
Ingo
